On Wednesday 5 May 2004, nickm at go2.ie (Nick Murtagh) wrote:
>Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>> The E-Voting system "can't" be verified unless access to it's source
>> code is available.
>>Even with source, how do you verify what code is actually running on a
>given voting machine?
That is something which occured to me also. The way to go there is an
independent system, separately developed, which will checksum a voting
machine. This gets to sound more and more like paranoia, but if we're
replacing a system which is transparent, and verifiable, the replacement
system must be at least as transparent AND verifiable.
Niall
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